Martha Wells

My Flying Lizard Circus

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May 13th, 2013

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* NY Times: Alice E. Kober, 43; Lost to History No MoreLike so many canonical narratives of achievement, this story has a quiet backstage figure behind the towering public one. And here, too, as in other such stories (recall Rosalind Franklin, whose work, long unacknowledged, informed the mapping of the structure of DNA by Francis Crick and James Watson), that figure is a woman.

* Black Gate: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring reviewed by Matthew David SurridgeThe novel deserves the acclaim it got. On one level, it’s a strong adventure story with a fast-moving plot. But the book’s also notable for its language — specifically the dialogue, largely written in a Caribbean English. And for the story's use of both science fiction and fantastic elements; as it works through a powerful family tragedy, played out in a dark future through the invocation of spirits and gods, it convincingly evokes the mythic.